Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-07-30

COunsell was sworn. He IS a minister
 of the gospel, and principal of the State
 Normal SchOOl at Huntsville. In reply
 t0 inquiries be told the story of hii
 election from the car ID which be haC
 taken his seat. He entered the car anC
 was told by someone whom he did mol
 recognize as train man that he must
 go forward, 10 which be paid no atten,
 tion. He was finally approached by two
 men. one of whom carried a lantern
 and the other had his hand upon his hip pocket. The man with the lantern
 seized witness and hit him over the
 head several times with the lantern, cutting his head badly and breaking
 the class. Witness appealed to the pas sengers, but without avail. His ss- sailsnts then seized and carried him into the forward car, which was very filthy and full of smoke. As he was being pushed from one car to another the brakeman told him that this was what he got for not moving when re- quested.
 PORTLAND Or, July 23-Thi5 morn | ing fire broke out ID J. A. Strobridge's building. The fire was in the third story of the building. and all three floors of the building are occupied by Haywood Bros. < Co.,, a branch house of the San Francisco firm, dealers in rattan and reed furniture. The damage to the building is considerable. as 1t will have to be replssteIed throughout, and the los- will probably reach S6OO0 5000, which IS fully insured in half a dozen different companies. Heywood Bros. < Co.'S loss is a serious one, as they had just received nine carloads of goods ID addition to other stock. The building was packed from basement to roof and the total amount of stock on hand WAS from s2S,OO0 to S30.OO0. Tte loss IS estimated at fully 75 per cent as damage to this class of goods Is nearly ss great by water as by fire.
 SACRAMENTO, July 23.-This evening at Junction two on the main line of the railroad a special fruit train and work train came together. resulting ID a smash up. The work train vas run hing with the tender in front The collision occurred at a curve, and both engineers noticed each other before the meeting and reversed the levers and applied the air brakes. but too late to prevent the collision. When the en- gInes came together there were five men in the cab of the work train and three on it's pilot. They all got off ID time except William Avery, R young man and a carpenter, who was thrown against the flat car in front of the pilot, and suif.red s compound fracture of the jaw and other injuries. Both loco motives were wrecked badly, but after two hours hard work the road was cleared Co permit the specIal iruis train and the overland Co proceed on their way eastward.
 PULLMAN. H., July 23.-Probabiy the greatest ti5Zl- Of boat race ever rOwed m the West was roWed here this after noon, in which Edward H6nlan, m the time of 2O;}2. nOminslly defeated Jacob Gandauer II had been announced that the contest would be for the chRmpIOn- ship of America, slOOO. and Co each of the participants a portion of the gate receipts, ln addition It was expected that the result would definitely decide whether ilBnisn. whom many people be- lieve the worlds greatest oarsmsn, had eventually closed his career. The race settled nothing. and was in no particu- lar success. The attendance was slim, and the whole affair was characterized by execrable management, tO say nOth- ing oi suspicion. The race itself par- took of the nature of e hippodrome. To-day cCltest was rowed under pc culisr conditions, ss their race on Dec Oration Fay took place ID the midst ot a binding ram that prevented close watch being kept. To-day they rowed in the dark. and watching of any kind was i'm possible. When Hanlan finished in front of the grand stand Gandauer was Q quarter of mile away out in the mid dle of the lake, No one on shore could see him, and rumOrs of all kinds were prevalent, some believing that he nati ! been capsized, while others thought he | had given up and had been taken aboard | the press boat.
 SAN ERANCIsCo, July 23.-The par ties to whom the Las MsrIposas ranch in Mariposs county was sold are under stood to be James O. Flood. Alvinza Hayward, Walter s. Hobart, ex-Senator John F. Jones of Nevada. and his brather aGd John W. Mackey, They paid $500. GOO, just one hundred tunes ss much as John O. Fremont paid for 1t little over thirty five years SEQ The banking house of DonohOe, Kelly & Co, have had control of the property for some time and effected the sale to the syndicate. For many years a cloud of litigation hung over the property. but the last of the long pending suits was dismissed by Judge RearSOn few days ago. The Ma1poss grant, ss 1t was commonly known, was the scene of great activity from the time of the first gold discovery and for fifteen or twenty vaara aFtar and many dasDerase aucOuu- ters for property rights or iancled wrongs occurred there. Some of the participants ID those scenes became later prominent in the history of the State and nation.